In the piece, Bannon says the Trump presidency his base imagined is over. Bannon is convinced that others advising the president will push Trump from the ultra-conservative agenda on which he campaigned.

Now Bannon says he’s ready for a different kind of fight:

“I feel jacked up,” he told the Weekly Standard. “Now I’m free. I’ve got my hands back on my weapons. Someone said, ‘it’s Bannon the Barbarian.’ I am definitely going to crush the opposition. There’s no doubt. I built a f***ing machine at Breitbart. And now I’m about to go back, knowing what I know, and we’re about to rev that machine up. And rev it up we will do.”